Festival de Cannes Selection Announced
The 62nd installment of the most prestigiuos film festival in the world, the Cannes Film Festival (May 13-24), announced their official selection today. All of the big directors with new films this year, with the notable exception of Woody Allen, submitted their new cinematic projects. The films are typically put into one of three categories: in competition, un certain regard, and out of competition. Ultimately, the films submitted are vying for the Palm d’Or – its Oscar equivalent would be ‘Best Picture’. Only the films selected for ‘In Competition’, however, have a chance to take home the coveted Golden Palm. Last year, a neorealistic French film about the experience of a literature teacher in an inner city Parisian middle school, “The Class”, directed by Laurent Cantet, won the Palm d’Or amidst pretty strong competition from Ari Folman’s “Waltz with Bashir” and Matteo Garrone’s “Gomorra”. French actress Isabelle Huppert, best known for her collaborations with Claude Chabrol, will head the jury and “Up”, the upcoming Pixar film directed by Peter Docter (Monsters, Inc.), will be the first animated film to open the festival. The following are the selections for this year’s Cannes Fim Festival:
In Competition:
Pedro ALMODÓVAR – LOS ABRAZOS ROTOS (Broken Embraces)
Andrea ARNOLD – FISH TANK
Jacques AUDIARD - UN PROPHÈTE
Marco BELLOCCHIO – VINCERE
Jane CAMPION – BRIGHT STAR
Isabel COIXET – MAP OF THE SOUNDS OF TOKYO
Xavier GIANNOLI - A L’ORIGINE
Michael HANEKE – DAS WEISSE BAND (The White Ribbon)
Ang LEE – TAKING WOODSTOCK
Ken LOACH – LOOKING FOR ERIC
LOU Ye – CHUN FENG CHEN ZUI DE YE WAN (Spring Fever)
Brillante MENDOZA – KINATAY
Gaspar NOE - ENTER THE VOID
PARK Chan-Wook – BAK-JWI (Thirst)
Alain RESNAIS - LES HERBES FOLLES
Elia SULEIMAN – THE TIME THAT REMAINS
Quentin TARANTINO – INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
Johnnie TO – VENGEANCE
TSAI Ming-Liang – VISAGE (Face)
Lars VON TRIER – ANTICHRIST
Un Certain Regard:
BONG Joon Ho – MOTHER
Alain CAVALIER – IRENE
Lee DANIELS – PRECIOUS
Denis DERCOURT – DEMAIN DES L’AUBE
Heitor DHALIA – À DERIVA (Adrift)
Bahman GHOBADI – KASI AZ GORBEHAYE IRANI KHABAR NADAREH (Nobody Knows About The Persian Cats)
Ciro GUERRA – LOS VIAJES DEL VIENTO (Les Voyages Du Vent)
Mia HANSEN-LOVE – LE PÈRE DE MES ENFANTS
Hanno HÖFER, Razvan MARCULESCU, Cristian MUNGIU, Constantin POPESCU, Ioana URICARU - AMINTIRI DIN EPOCA DE AUR (Tales From The Golden Age)
Nikolay KHOMERIKI – SKAZKA PRO TEMNOTU (Tale In The Darkness)
HIrokazu KORE-EDA – KUKI NINGYO (Air Doll)
Yorgos LANTHIMOS – KYNODONTAS (Dogtooth)
Pavel LOUNGUINE – TZAR (Le Tsar)
Raya MARTIN – INDEPENDENCIA (Independence)
Corneliu PORUMBOIU – POLITIST, ADJECTIV (Policier, Adjectif)
Pen-Ek RATANARUANG – NANG MAI (Nymph)
João Pedro RODRIGUES – MORRER COMO UM HOMEM (Mourir Comme Un Homme)
Haim TABAKMAN – EYES WIDE OPEN
Warwick THORNTON – SAMSON AND DELILAH
Jean VAN DE VELDE – THE SILENT ARMY
Out of Competition:
Alejandro AMENABAR – AGORA
Terry GILLIAM- THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS (L’IMAGINARIUM DU DOCTEUR PARNASSUS)
Robert GUÉDIGUIAN – L’ARMÉE DU CRIME
Peter DOCTER – UP
Here is the official press kit for this years festival.
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I’m really excited for the return of Gaspar Noe, Lars Von Trier, and Jacques Audiard.